Word: launchings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choice of a first play, Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, to launch the new theater was symbolically correct. Houston is the nation's space center, and on opening night 30 of the U.S.'s 52 astronauts were present. They journey among the stars that Galileo peered at through his heretical telescope...
...sheer drama of man's first flight to the moon-the spectacle, the perils and the uncertainty-has been heightened by the prospects of a close race between the U.S. and Russia. The U.S. has announced that on Dec. 21 it hopes to launch three astronauts aboard Apollo 8. According to the projected schedule, they will circle the moon ten times, starting on Christmas Eve, then return to the earth, where they will land 21 days later. Russian plans, as usual, are cloaked in secrecy. But many Western experts who have pieced together clues from Moscow rumors, recent Soviet...
...State of San Joaquin." Later he organized the Federal Alliance of Free City States, laying claim to Spanish land grants covering 35 million acres in New Mexico, 72 million in Arizona. 400 million in Texas, 698 million in California. But it was chiefly in Rio Arriba that Tijerina helped launch a campaign of terror...
...selected to launch Soc Sci 5 at Harvard--and the man bearing the brunt of the criticism--is Professor Frank Freidel, 52, senior member of the History Department and noted Franklin D. Roosevelt biographer. Freidel, approached both by members of Afro and by the faculty committee last spring, abandoned his plans to teach a course this year on the New Deal and accepted the draft. After soliciting recommendations from black students and other faculty members, Freidel spent a summer on Cape Cod gathering together his lecture material and drawing up a reading list...
After a recent unsuccessful effort to launch a relief ship to Biafra, "BROTHER"--a Cambridge-based group of students--is now supporting relief flights to the secessionist African nation...